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Kieran Healy

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Professor of Sociology at Duke University.
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This airport WiFi neither Wis nor Fis.

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I like how Portugal have a player that’s a 2/3 scale model of one of their regular players.

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0 for 62 is that Ronaldo’s free kick streak now? You can see why they keep letting him take them.

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God, that Ronaldo is an awful langer.

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At least the Brits can hand over power as soon as the votes are counted, rather than having to wait two months for Pedro the Inauguration Burro to complete his journey across the country.

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+210 seats gained on a +2% increase in vote share. FPTP Democracy truly a miracle of representation.

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34% of the vote; 63% of the seats. The miracle of FPTP in action again.

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Hadn’t realized how well the NYT’s “Don’t Vote” Op-Ed guy expressed a Disgraced Geography Teacher vibe.

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Local Scottish museum exhibit with culturally on-brand material by local schoolchildren on the Highland Clearances.

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Far away from nonsense of many varieties.

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The immunity ruling is a perfect expression of Wilhoit’s Law, Crooked Timber’s most lasting and most accidental gift to political theory.

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Now that I'm fully aware of the ironies behind (1) rating this book at a website like Goodreads, (2) maintaining an annual reading goal, and (3) posting about it to produce content on a social media network, I can give 5 of 5 stars to The Ordinal Society by Marion Fourcade and @kjhealy.bsky.social

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On reflection, after a good night’s sleep, it seems to me that Biden’s most sensible course of action is to have a memo from the AG’s office find that carrying out his duties as Executive now requires he arrest and indefinitely imprison a Supreme Court Justice at the rate of one per week.

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As always with stuff like this I think of Juan Linz and his basically correct conviction that the United States is a country determined to shed any accidentally remaining vestiges of parliamentary tradition and fully join its wider continent’s proud tradition of Authoritarian Presidentialism.

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I see we no longer require phrases like “extrajudicial murder” because now it’s all just legal, apparently.

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Finished The Ordinal Society. Magnifique! Thinking about connection between Bourdieu’s “twofold truth” and Smith’s impartial spectator in TMS. Slightly pained (as a pol phil)by absence of Rawls and Dworkin from ch7. Dworkin good fit for legitimating alibi @kjhealy.bsky.social @marionf.bsky.social

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I’ve been offline all day and now that I’m back all I can say is I should have stayed away.

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It was funny to drop in and find it identical to how I had left it on a primary school tour in 1984 or somesuch.

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The Irish Natural History Museum really hasn’t been updated since the 1940s and although they are constantly apologizing for this, really it just means it’s cabinet after cabinet chock full of stuff, with none of your modern “Give exhibits room to breathe, and an interactive component” nonsense.

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Kids at the exhibit of course absolutely FASCINATED

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This is my Summer Bog Body

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Perhaps you did. Look mate, I have no interest in sniping with you, a Surprised Eel Historian. I now regret assuming a typical reader would see my original remark not, in the main, as really about the Middle Ages, but more as what you might call an exasperated rhetorical fling at recent events.

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With the greatest possible respect I am sorry to say that at this time I have less than no interest in Medievalists loyally popping up to tell me a lot of things in the Middle Ages were great actually

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Some of my favorite bits of Supreme Court oral argument are the ones where Roberts or one of his ilk rolls their eyes and scoffs at the very idea of being expected to understand something as scientifically obscure or mathematically arcane as a bit of eighth-grade algebra or similar.

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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Whaddya gonna do about it? Sue us?

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that, consistent with the effective locus of Executive Authority, each Justice’s summer home or luxury RV must be retrofitted with a Nuclear Football.

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State Capacity is defined as the capacity of the state to benefit me personally

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 that bribery is a conceptual impossibility, state administrative capacity is illegal, and it is henceforth the only branch of government. But don’t worry, they’re all good friends who take themselves very seriously.

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Arrived in Dublin having only found out yesterday that Taylor Swift, a popular singer, is playing at the Aviva, a short walk from where I’m staying. Area thronged with concert-goers or “Tailfins” as they are known.

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Further into the book now. It really is pretty amazing. My Rousseauiste fantasies about opting out get a thoroughly robust debunking.

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Shannon Airport advertising the region as “Ireland’s Midwest” is very much damned-out-of-yer-own-mouths there lads.

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Generational labelers insist “Nothing to worry about” as Cohort Effect once again turns out to be Age Effect

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I’ll take all four, thanks; just put them in my bag

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(This is one of those videos where if you watch the first minute you’ll end up watching the whole thing.)

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my favourite thing about academia: i get to read books where each page sparks more ideas and questions and things to think about as part of my job less than 50 pages in, ‘The Ordinal Society’ is such a book (but don’t take it from me, take it from danah boyd)

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This is a version of A Kind Of Guy in grad school who would insist on wearing shorts all winter

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Nazily-charged statements

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He was talking about the University of Chicago, but Liebling’s remark about “The greatest collection of juvenile neurotics since the Children’s Crusade” does spring to mind.

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I hear the distant echo of some ongoing Bluesky nonsense I am pleased neither to observe directly nor feel any need to investigate, like a Roman shepherd on the slopes of a placid hillside facing the Amalfi coast, half-catching now and then on the breeze the sounds of Pompeii’s devastation.

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New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

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Best is when you buy a pair of scissors and they arrive in one of those packages.

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Happy Calvinball Day to all who celebrate

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I see it’s time for another episode of FdB takes the wheel to drive a pretty important topic as quickly as possible into each of his several hobby-horses.

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